died at the age of eighty-two, our former Prime Minister Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo Bustelo, I Marquis de la Ria Ribadeo with Grandee of Spain. Minister of Trade with the first government of the monarchy, then took charge of relations with the European Economic Community and NATO membership in the same of the Kingdom of Spain.
Son of Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo Bustelo Márquez and Mercedes. Represented as the union just two major political sagas of the north and northwest. His father was quoted as counsel for the State Council. His paternal grandparents were Don Pedro Calvo Walk, a native of the province of Palencia and judge, and Mrs. Eloise Sotelo Lafuente. His maternal grandparents, Ramon Bustelo González (son of Don José turn Bustelo and Dona Brigida Gonzalez and Santamarina), heir to the Banking Martínez Bengoechea (which became known as Banca Bustelo) and prominent Liberal MP Don Sigismondo related Moret, and Dona Rosario Vázquez Gomez, Adolfo Vazquez's sister, anarchist active in the area and who fled the country in the decade from 1880 to Uruguay, where he founded the first Masonic Lodge in that country and former English province.
And in between, a whole lot of family and political relations worthy of being referred by a social-genealogist like this your humble servant. The Calvo-Sotelo, surrounded by the clan called Bustelos mother's side, they share ancestors with illustrious dynasties bourgeois as the Alvarez-Cascos, the Del Pino (Ferrovial), the Azcarate (determined liberal reformers), or with leading socialist politicians Fernando Morán López contemporaries, former foreign minister in the first term felipes (1982-1985) and Mercedes Cabrera Calvo-Sotelo, Minister of Education with fellow socialist government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (who did not last us 100 years).
Finally it should be noted that Don Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo Bustelo was not the first in his family to receive the distinction of a title, but it was his cousin Jose Calvo-Sotelo and Grondona, Duke of Calvo Sotelo , title awarded by General Franco in 1948 in memory of his father, Don José Calvo Sotelo (brother of the father of Don Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo Bustelo), former finance minister who was the Dictator Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, MP and senior leader of the conservative right and the monarchy during the Second Republic, against English Renewal Party, and cruelly murdered in his own home a gang of Socialist supporters in July 36, a fact that favored the military uprising of July 18th (then became the first martyr of the Regime).
